"The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts." - John Greenleaf Whittier

"For somehow, not only at Christmas, but all the long year through, The joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you." - John Greenleaf Whittier

"No longer forward nor behind, I look in hope or fear; But grateful take the good I find, The best of now and here." - John Greenleaf Whittier